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...night march at Camp Beale, Calif. the troops halted for rest at the end of the first four miles. Technical Sergeant Harmon Ligon: 1) took off his shoes, 2) couldn't get them back on. Twenty-one miles later, Virginian Ligon: 1) still couldn't get them on, 2) was at the head of the column...
...large, moon-faced Virginian, 56 years old. Unschooled (sixth grade), he learned about printing by working for a printer in Scranton, got a working knowledge of make-up in a Connecticut advertising agency. He even studied at a Better Vision Institute. After writing for printing trade publications, he got a job at New York University teaching typography on a commission basis (his pay: one-third of the tuition his students paid). In ten years Farrar upped enrollment from...
...post in U.S. Protestantism, the Federal Council (see above) last week picked a lank, unassuming Virginian. Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker's election was a vote for Protestant harmony. "It is hard to believe," says one of his admirers, "that any human being can actually be as wise as the Bishop sometimes looks when debate is heated around...
...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...
That this story of France was written in a house in New England's White Mountains is not surprising. Author Julian Green is one of the strangest Franco-American mixtures in American expatriate literature. His father was a Virginian, his mother came from Savannah, Ga.; he himself was born (1900) and raised in Paris where Father Green went to represent a U.S. oil company. Author Green, now 42 and in the U.S. Army, is an American citizen with twelve books to his credit (best known: The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey...